Congratulations to Bob Dylan, surprise winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. This is easily the most controversial award since they gave it to the guy who wrote Lord of the Flies, which was controversial only because it came next after the immensely popular 1982 prize for Gabriel García Márquez. Nobody can read th...

Aformer glamour model who once posed topless in a tabloid paper has been arrested by counter terrorism police.
Kimberley Miners was held for around 24 hours on suspicion of the possession of terrorist material, and then bailed.
Officers from the north east’s counter terrorism unit also searched the 27-year-old’s home in Bradford.
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In the spring of 2015, the FBI arrested the North Carolina administrator of the "Playpen," a child pornography online bulletin board. However, the agency didn't take the website down. Instead, the FBI moved its servers to a warehouse in Virginia and continued to run the site for two weeks. That move initiated a sting called "Operation Pacifier, "...

It would be “unconstitutional” for France to pass a law banning the burkini, and such a move could cause irreparable harm, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve warned in an interview published online late Sunday.
Speaking to French daily La Croix, Cazeneuve reiterated the government’s opposition to legislating on the cont...

France is causing political and social turmoil following its crackdown on Muslims, first by banning the burka and most recently banning the Burkini.
Cannes was the first city to announce the prohibition, with mayor David Lisnar giving the following reason:
[Banning] beachwear ostentatiously showing a religious affiliation while France and place...

“Thank God” was a common response among British Muslims after hearing of the conviction of notorious loudmouth Anjem Choudary and his assistant Mizanur Rahman for inviting support for a terror group. Choudary has spent years shamelessly spewing hatred and bile, cultivating a small and very public network of yo...

Egyptian judoka Islam El Shehaby has been sent home from the Rio Olympics after refusing to shake the hand of Israeli Or Sasson following the end of their bout, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday.
Middle East politics spilled onto the judo mat at the Rio Olympics on Friday as El Shehaby snubbed Sasson after being comfor...

The Sunday Times reports that Brexit may be delayed until as late as 2019 because the new Brexit department in parliament don't seem quite ready to face the tough negotiations.
Nigel Farage, who campaigned to leave the EU, has had rather a lot to say about the consequences of the delay:
Don't call people who voted Brexit racist. B...

There are advantages to living in a completely digitally connected world: an act of kindness which would have otherwise remained in the dark can be shared and celebrated by millions of people across the world.
That’s precisely what happened when a mother of two walked into a Dallas jewellery shop last week.
She went into the shop with the...

In a fascinating social experiment, Reddit asked its users who are supporting Donald Trump for president, what it would take for them to switch to another candidate. Then, as only Reddit can, it proceeded to mock Trump as well as some of the answers.
User ThreeStarUniform said that if Trump admitted “I was only running to clinch ...